Slow voting in Burundi for an election boycotted by the opposition and condemned by the world community as lacking conditions to ensure it was fair.
Assailants attacked numerous polling stations in Burundi overnight, while the AU says it won’t observe the elections.
After weeks of political crisis and unrest in which dozens of protesters were killed, Burundi is expected to hold parliamentary polls on Monday.
Aid agencies say the number of unaccompanied minors among refugees arriving in Rwanda is uncharacteristically high.
The upcoming AU summit in South Africa will likely see issues such as Boko Haram and the Burundi protests steal attention away from development talks.
Scores of Burundian refugees, many of them ill or at death’s door, are travelling by ship to Nyarugusu camp in Tanzania in search of a better life.
Analysts don’t believe that an end to the violence will be enough to revive the economy, especially if Pierre Nkurunziza is re-elected as president.
Demonstrations in Burundi are the latest in a string of protests which prove African citizens will not allow their leaders to operate with impunity.
Despite a call by East African leaders for Burundi to delay its upcoming elections this month, no pressure was put on the president to step down.
Burundi’s main opposition parties have said holding free and fair elections on June 5 is "impossible" and that the result should not be recognised.
A demonstrator has been shot dead and two others wounded when police opened fire on a group of about 100 protesters.
The president’s refusal to step down has enraged even those from his own Hutu community.
The Burundian presidency pushed back elections by 10 days as police clashed with protesters, shooting and killing a soldier.
Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza says Islamist militants were behind the attempted coup, but Al-Shabab has described the claim as "dumbfounding".
Burundi’s armed forces chief announced that an attempted coup against President Pierre Nkurunziza, who is in hiding in Tanzania, had failed.
Presidents in talks with Pierre Nkurunziza condemned the coup as Godefroid Niyombare ordered Bujumbura airport closed to stop the president returning.
Major General Godefroid Niyombare’s announcement he had fired Nkurunziza was met with jeers from the presidential office, but cheers from citizens.
Protesters are demanding that Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza abandon his bid for a third term.
Heavy gunfire has been heard after police fired teargas at protesters throwing stones in a suburb of Burundi’s capital Bujumbura.
Tens of thousands of refugees from Burundi are fleeing political violence and targeted attacks by the ruling party’s youth wing militia.
The president’s unrelenting bid for a third term is raising tensions that could inflame the region.
Protesters refuse to end demonstrations against President Pierre Nkurunziza’s bid to run for a third term. So far, more than a dozen people have died.
After weeks of protests, Burundi’s president’s bid for a third term has been approved by the Constitutional Court, causing political chaos.
Burundi’s constitutional court is to examine the legality of the president’s bid for a third term, after recent protests that left five people dead.
Demonstrations in Burundi continued for a second day as the country’s president tries to cling to power for a third term.
The Arusha Agreement, mediated by South Africa, is being shrugged off as the state forbids activists from holding meetings.
The reason for SA expelling diplomat Jean-Claude Sindayigaya is not yet clear, but he has already left the country.
Four months after Bujumbura’s key market was razed to the ground, thousands of traders and the economy itself are reeling from the blow.
Burundi’s president has approved a Bill that forces journalists to reveal sources and forbids stories deemed to undermine national security.
Radios, local doctors and techniques to help underweight newborns are saving the lives of women and children in Burundi.
Somalia’s al-Qaeda-allied al-Shebaab rebels warned they were stepping up a bombing campaign in the war-torn capital Mogadishu.
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/ 22 November 2011
A rights group says more than 300 members of Burundi’s former rebel group and opposition supporters have been killed by state-backed death squads.